Software Engineer, Identity Platform

OpenAI·San Francisco·onsite
crypto:applicationengineeringIC4Applied AI
Compensation
$293k–$405k base / year (USD)
About the Team Identity is the foundation of trust in an AI-powered world. As people build a rich personal and organizational context in ChatGPT, they need systems that protect it, remember it, and let them share it securely across apps and agents. Without strong identity, context stays locked away or exposed. With it, AI becomes safe, personal, and truly useful, empowering users while keeping control firmly in their hands. Our team builds the trusted OpenAI account layer that connects people, enterprises, developers, and agents to OpenAI apps and the broader AI ecosystem. About the Role As a Senior Software Engineer on the Identity team, you will build and evolve the foundational identity platform that serves all OpenAI users across our products. You’ll lead the design and implementation of core identity systems — including authentication, authorization, access control, and account management — enabling individuals, teams, and businesses to securely manage accounts at scale while keeping the user experience seamless. This role spans our entire product fleet, including ChatGPT, the API, Sora, Codex, and Atlas, and involves close collaboration with product and platform engineers who rely on identity as critical infrastructure. You’ll drive major architectural initiatives, mentor other engineers, and make platform-level decisions where security, correctness, and reliability are paramount. In this role, you will: - Architect and build the next generation of Identity at OpenAI – including new use cases such as Agent identity and Sign In With ChatGPT - Design and build our identity infrastructure for consumer internet scale, while also solving scalability bottlenecks as they arise. - Build powerful identity primitives, APIs, and internal tooling that enable product teams across OpenAI to integrate seamlessly with the account and access-control layer. - Collaborate closely with a broad set of stakeholders, including product, design, go-to-market, and other enginee